Question

You wish to ship six crude oil samples from your drill site to your laboratory. Each sample has a density of 0.8240 kg/L and fills a 1.090e-4 m3container. How much mass, X g , of crude oil will you be shipping?

(HINT: |X| is near an order of magnitude of 102 g ).

Answer 1

total mass of 6 samples = 538.896 g

in terms of X = 5.283 g

Explanation:

Given:

Number of crude oil samples = 6

Density of each sample = 0.8240 kg/L

Volume filled by each sample = 1.09 × 10⁻⁴ m³

now,

1 m³ = 1000 L

thus,

1.09 × 10⁻⁴ m³ = 1.09 × 10⁻⁴ m³ × 1000 = 0.109 L

also,

Mass = Density × Volume

or

Mass of each sample = 0.8240 × 0.109 = 0.089816 kg

Thus,

total mass of 6 samples = Mass of each sample × 6

or

total mass of 6 samples = 0.089816 kg × 6 = 0.538896 kg

or

total mass of 6 samples = 538.896 g

or

in X =
`\frac{\textup{total mass of 6 samples}}{\textup{102}}`

= 5.283 g